Thomas Vámos (born September 21, 1938) is a

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cinematographer. He is most noted as a two-time

Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for sc ...

nominee for

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, receiving nominations at the

10th Genie Awards The 10th Genie Awards were held on March 22, 1989."Dead Ringers tops at Genies". ''Montreal Gazette'', March 23, 1989. This was in the middle of a strike at the CBC, causing the ceremony to be scaled down and several nominees to boycott the awards ...

in 1989 for ''

The Revolving Doors ''The Revolving Doors'' (french: Les Portes tournantes) is a 1988 Canadian-French French-language drama film directed by Francis Mankiewicz. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards, ...

(Les Portes tournantes)'' and at the

13th Genie Awards The 13th annual Genie Awards were held on November 22, 1992, and honoured Canada, Canadian films released in late 1991 and 1992. They were dominated by the Canadian/United Kingdom, British/Japanese co-production ''Naked Lunch (film), Naked Lunch''. ...

in 1992 for ''

Being at Home with Claude ''Being at Home with Claude'' is a 1992 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Beaudin and based on the play by René-Daniel Dubois. The film stars Roy Dupuis as Yves, a gay man who has just murdered his lover Claude ( Jean-François Pichette), an ...

''. Vámos was born in

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. His other film credits have included ''

This Is No Time for Romance ''This Is No Time for Romance'' (french: Ça n'est pas le temps des romans) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Fernand Dansereau and released in 1967. An exploration of the changing role of women in the early years of feminism, the film ...

(Ça n'est pas le temps des romans)'', ''

Kid Sentiment ''Kid Sentiment'' is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Jacques Godbout and released in 1968. Mixing fiction with documentary in the direct cinema style and working with a cast of non-professional actors, the film depicts 1960s youth cultu ...

'', ''

Q-Bec My Love ''Q-Bec My Love'' (french: Un succès commercial, ou Q-Bec My Love) is a Canadian film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1970.Gerald Pratley, ''Torn Sprockets: The Uncertain Projection of the Canadian Film''. University of Delawar ...

'', '' O.K. ... Laliberté'', ''

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'', ''

The Dame in Colour ''The Dame in Colour'' (french: La Dame en couleurs) is a 1985 Canadian drama film directed by Claude Jutra. It was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. Plot ''La Dame en couleurs'' is set in an insane asylum administered ...

(La dame en couleurs)'', ''

The Peanut Butter Solution ''The Peanut Butter Solution'' ( French title: ''Opération beurre de pinottes'') is a 1985 Canadian children's fantasy film directed by Michael Rubbo. The second installment in the '' Tales for All (Contes Pour Tous)'' series of films by Les Pro ...

'', '' The Gate'', '' Captive Hearts'', ''

A Hero's Life ''Ein Heldenleben'' (''A Hero's Life''), Op. 40, is a tone poem by Richard Strauss. The work was completed in 1898. It was his eighth work in the genre, and exceeded any of its predecessors in its orchestral demands. Generally agreed to be au ...

(La vie d'un héros)'', ''

The Sleep Room ''The Sleep Room'' is a 1998 Canadian television movie about experiments on Canadian mental patients that were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s by Donald Ewen Cameron and funded by the CIA's MKUltra program. It originally aired as a miniseries ...

'', '' On Your Head (Le Ciel sur la tête)'' and ''

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''. He directed a number of films in the 1970s and 1980s, including the feature films '' Exile (L'Exil)'' and ''La fleur aux dents''. In 1983 the short film ''The Plant (La plante)'', which Vámos codirected with

Joyce Borenstein Joyce Borenstein is a Canadian film director, animator and writer. Borenstein worked in the independent animation field in the 1970s before joining the National Film Board of Canada in the 1980s, culminating in the short animated documentary '' T ...

, won the Montreal Prize at the

Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto Interna ...

.Ina Warren, "The World Film Festival: The Go Masters wins festival's Grand Prize". '' The Globe and Mail'', August 29, 1983.

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